The opaque and unpredictable routes to verified status on social media, make it a desirable status symbol, and a distorting influence on social interactions
social media verification
A collection of 20 posts
The Momo Challenge: a press-driven panic over a non-existent threat
The Momo Challenge has been all over the internet - and the papers. Only one small problem: it doesn't exist.
The critical need for verification skills in modern journalism education
A talk by the BBC's Mark Frankel reinforced the critical need for more verification skills in modern newsrooms
The Guardian catches Storyful tracking what videos journalists are watching
Storyful has been running an internal feed of all the videos clients using its Chrome extension watch. Is this malice or incompetence?
Hoaxers are crippling Twitter's breaking news value
Buzzfeed's experience with breaking news makes it clear that hoaxes are eroding Twitter's value during a major news event.
Serious about "fake news"? Back Bellingcat
Any one paying attention to journalism right now knows that misinformation, disinformation and “fake news” are becoming a more significant part of our cultural landscape. Luckily, we have some very skilled people working to deal with these issue. In particular,…
Defining the real forms of Fake News
The lovely, lovely First Draft Coalition has been doing some excellent work in unpicking the roots of the real “Fake News”, before that phrase got co-opted. In particular, research director Claire Wardle has expended on work by Elliot Higgins to…
About that 1998 Trump interview…
We're all prone to confirmation bias. Even me.